On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:50, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:38 am, slim wrote: > > To do the following? > > > > I just got one of those fancy-dancy gmail accounts, and while I aint > > crazy about the email side of it, the one gig storage gave me an idea. > > > > what Id like to do, is make a script that will gather certain dir. and > > files for back up, split some tar.gz files at 9.8 meg each and email > > them to my gmail account... the gmail account has a 10 meg limit on a > > single message hence the need to split the file... > > > > I can think of a way to do this via php or perl but I was thinking a > > shell script would do it more efficiently... what do you all think? > > That should not be too hard, certainly do-able with something like PHP. But in > shell script, all you need would be the following commands: > > tar > gzip (maybe able to combine tar and gzip) > split > mutt (to send file as attachment. I'm not sure if you can do it easily with > 'mail'). > > You may need to loop over the resulting pieces file from split, then call > 'mutt' inside the script. > > I'd do it in PHP, since I know it better than shell (or bash), and just do > system() or exex() for calling tar, gzip and split. Efficiency should not be > a problem with PHP running in command line mode. > > RDB > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Department of Physics and Astronomy > The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > --------------------------------------------------------- > "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy > something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy > Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional > side effect." > - Linus Torvalds - > Yep I was looking at some ways in php to do this. but I cant get by the fact that I'll more than likely need two scripts. one to do the backup, zip and split and one to retrieve the files and send via e-mail... Thanks
